Unsteady turbulent buoyant plumes

DOI10.1017/JFM.2016.101zbMATH Open1462.76103arXiv1507.06571OpenAlexW3102325649MaRDI QIDQ4976643FDOQ4976643

Authors: M. J. Woodhouse, J. C. Phillips, Andrew J. Hogg 

Publication date: 1 August 2017

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We model the unsteady evolution of turbulent buoyant plumes following temporal changes to the source conditions. The integral model is derived from radial integration of the governing equations expressing the conservation of mass, axial momentum and buoyancy. The non-uniform radial profiles of the axial velocity and density deficit in the plume are explicitly described by shape factors in the integral equations; the commonly-assumed top-hat profiles lead to shape factors equal to unity. The resultant model is hyperbolic when the momentum shape factor, determined from the radial profile of the mean axial velocity, differs from unity. The solutions of the model when source conditions are maintained at constant values retain the form of the well-established steady plume solutions. We demonstrate that the inclusion of a momentum shape factor that differs from unity leads to a well-posed integral model. Therefore, our model does not exhibit the mathematical pathologies that appear in previously proposed unsteady integral models of turbulent plumes. A stability threshold for the value of the shape factor is identified, resulting in a range of its values where the amplitude of small perturbations to the steady solutions decay with distance from the source. The hyperbolic character of the system allows the formation of discontinuities in the fields describing the plume properties during the unsteady evolution. We compute numerical solutions to illustrate the transient development following an abrupt change in the source conditions. The adjustment to the new source conditions occurs through the propagation of a pulse of fluid through the plume. The dynamics of this pulse are described by a similarity solution and, by constructing this new similarity solution, we identify three regimes in which the evolution of the transient pulse following adjustment of the source qualitatively differ.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06571

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zbMATH Keywords

turbulent convectionplumes/thermals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convective turbulence (76F35)

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